Border Patrol Agent

by Jess Rey Heath

I stand here with a youth before me
Try to dream of a better way
And told this is the only way,
I look into my heart and ask what do I do?
Do I look the other way and let him run by or,
Do I send him back to hardship and hunger?
What do I do?
My heart and brain are fighting each other
in an all out civil war with the results being the
fate of this undocumented immigrant.
Do I choose him or the future of my family?